I call bullshit. Amnesty International issues reports like this on every nation in the world. Most are far worse in content that the ones covering North America.
That's fine, except the countries pushing hardest for this are China, Iran, etc. They are the ones most threatened by the current free exchange of information, and have the most to gain by bringing it under greater government regulation.
How about intensity of sunlight at the different latitudes/seasons. Criminy it is not exaclt midsummer in the northern hemisphere, and SF is a lot farther north than Syracuse. It seems to me that the case has not been made that this is a myth. 300 sq feet is not a lot either.
Oh Oh - and you didn't finish your research. Not surprising. If you had done your homework you would see that these are just the civil wiretaps. There are wiretaps conducted under the classification of foreign intelligence. Do the work and you will see the total number is actually about 3500.
Learn to think and do basic reasearch for yourself. Challenging people to supply citations and making assertions that the data is hard to find when you haven't even done the most basic research on your own makes you look really clueless.
While it is clearly morally right for Tiawan to protect its citizens from a deadly health threat, it seems to me that there are a lot of open questions here. For example Tiawan is a relatively wealthy nation. How is it they can't just buy the stuff through regular channels? Then of course they are running off and manufacturing a generic version of the drug - are they sure what they have manufactured is exactly the same as Tamaflu? It says in the article that it is 99% the same. Well, speaking as an organic chemist 99% the same may not give the same biological effect at all.
Then of course this places large questions on the future development of vaccines. Drug companies already don't see vaccines as a particularly desirable R&D area - they are tricky to make and store, and not as reliable as a lot of other drug types, PLUS there are all sorts of liability issues that make them risky to make. If you take away the financial incentives by nationalizing the drugs every time there is even the threat of a disease outbreak (and yes avian flu is a threat right now) what drug company is going to get into this game in the future?
US Government voided many radio patents beginning/during WW2
Maybe you are thinking about WWI. Marconi sued the US government for infringement of his radio patent, but ended up losing his patent in favor of Tesla's patent application on radio.
The statistics are easy to find. However that won't help you sleep better. In 2004 there were aboyt 3500 wiretap requests by law enforcement agencies. NONE were denied.
What is surprising to me is the relatively small number. On the other hand it seems pretty unlikely that Congress will be under any pressure to pass a law granting wiretap authority without court approval since the courts never deny a wiretap application.
Of course you are free to ask to supress such evidence in the case you are brought to trial - that supression does happen.
Ahh - vaporware. We all know how stuff always gets delivered on time and lives up to all the marketing hype. And of course after issuance of the preannouncement the competitors are not allowed to improve their products.
That high off the ground also makes SUVs very unsafe - the death rate in SUVs is higher than in any other 4 wheel vehicle type because of the high center of gravity leads to a lot of rollovers. Even a simple tire failure or striking a guard rail can cause these things to flip.
Then there is of course the toll on the occupants of other vehicles these things hit. Car occupants are 50% more likely to be killed in a SUV-car accident than in a car-car accident.
The problem is so bad that the decline in highway deaths in the US has hit a plateau. Death rates in SUVs is actually rising.
Analysis of the statistics gives estimates that SUVs lead to an additional 6000 deaths on US highways every year.
More like 3000. And it covers a vastly wider range of applications - 2D and 3D graphics APIs, a couple of GUI frameworks, XML binding frameworks etc. PHP sure looks both weak-assed and crufty.
I am sorry, but I have worked on PHP based ecommerce sites written by a team of programmers. I HAVE NEVER SEEN REAL WORLD PHP WEB APPS that don't suck giant donkey dicks! The only thing worse is some of those early 1995 sites written in CGI Perl.
There is No NONE NADDA culture of acceptable programming practice in the PHP space. Thank god some of our customers insisted THOUSHALTDELIVERJAVA to us. It enabled me to learn Java and land a real job that paid enough to feed my family before the PHP shop I was working for went bust.
Now maybe PHP can be used to write good code. But I consider that to be a pie in the sky theoretical possibility much like time travel, dark energy and space warps. It would be great but you won't see it in your lifetime.
And I *SURE AS SHIT* don't want to try to make a living working on code like that.
More recently I have been looking at mod_python. Now that I could see using to build lightweight web sites. Once it matures a bit.
But php? BLLEEECCHHHH. In practice its use leads to all the wrong sorts of things. Tierless designs with presentation, business logic and persistance all happening in the same goddam file. Worse than old spaghetti code you see in old BASIC programs because the cruft is multi level.
This article is a crock. PHP is great for your $10 a month hosting service domain on a shared server, but Java has been and continues to be the market leader when it comes to writing web based functionality that integrates across an entire enterprise.
Mod article as redundant.. AMD dual core technology has been kicking butt since the day it hit the market. And since you can use dual core athlon IN EXISTING 939 pin mobos you have it made in the shade. Low pawer consumption, variable clock speed, killer performance leads to the best workstations on the market.
The x86 may be cheaper, but it doesn't mean that it is better.
The problem is that any advantage the Sparc architecture may have is swamped by cost. I can build a 200 CPU Athlon rack with 2 TB of RAM for the same price a single well configured V-890 (8 CPU/64 GB RAM) goes for. The Sparc may be better, but 25 times better.
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This apparantly provides a giant source money to the company.
Not that giant. $4.25/year per address. Maybe on the order of $100 million per year.
I call bullshit. Amnesty International issues reports like this on every nation in the world. Most are far worse in content that the ones covering North America.
That's fine, except the countries pushing hardest for this are China, Iran, etc. They are the ones most threatened by the current free exchange of information, and have the most to gain by bringing it under greater government regulation.
How about intensity of sunlight at the different latitudes/seasons. Criminy it is not exaclt midsummer in the northern hemisphere, and SF is a lot farther north than Syracuse. It seems to me that the case has not been made that this is a myth. 300 sq feet is not a lot either.
Grade on this project: F.
Is the obvious answer. Do a google search on this term and find your answer.
Oh Oh - and you didn't finish your research. Not surprising. If you had done your homework you would see that these are just the civil wiretaps. There are wiretaps conducted under the classification of foreign intelligence. Do the work and you will see the total number is actually about 3500.
Learn to think and do basic reasearch for yourself. Challenging people to supply citations and making assertions that the data is hard to find when you haven't even done the most basic research on your own makes you look really clueless.
They're easy to find...and yet you can't provide a single citation....
Whatsammater, too lazy to try Google? Or are you just stupid?
Try wiretap statistics and I'm feeling lucky.
While it is clearly morally right for Tiawan to protect its citizens from a deadly health threat, it seems to me that there are a lot of open questions here. For example Tiawan is a relatively wealthy nation. How is it they can't just buy the stuff through regular channels? Then of course they are running off and manufacturing a generic version of the drug - are they sure what they have manufactured is exactly the same as Tamaflu? It says in the article that it is 99% the same. Well, speaking as an organic chemist 99% the same may not give the same biological effect at all.
Then of course this places large questions on the future development of vaccines. Drug companies already don't see vaccines as a particularly desirable R&D area - they are tricky to make and store, and not as reliable as a lot of other drug types, PLUS there are all sorts of liability issues that make them risky to make. If you take away the financial incentives by nationalizing the drugs every time there is even the threat of a disease outbreak (and yes avian flu is a threat right now) what drug company is going to get into this game in the future?
US Government voided many radio patents beginning/during WW2
Maybe you are thinking about WWI. Marconi sued the US government for infringement of his radio patent, but ended up losing his patent in favor of Tesla's patent application on radio.
The statistics are easy to find. However that won't help you sleep better. In 2004 there were aboyt 3500 wiretap requests by law enforcement agencies. NONE were denied.
What is surprising to me is the relatively small number. On the other hand it seems pretty unlikely that Congress will be under any pressure to pass a law granting wiretap authority without court approval since the courts never deny a wiretap application.
Of course you are free to ask to supress such evidence in the case you are brought to trial - that supression does happen.
http://www.panasonic.co.jp/corp/news/official.data /data.dir/en051005-3/en051005-3.html
Sounds like you will be able to buy these in March.
competitive on the price
I don't think so. Hard drives run about $.50 per GB, while DVD's run about $.50 for 4.7 GB.
future plans
Ahh - vaporware. We all know how stuff always gets delivered on time and lives up to all the marketing hype. And of course after issuance of the preannouncement the competitors are not allowed to improve their products.
Feh.
SUV's are high off the ground and comfortable.
That high off the ground also makes SUVs very unsafe - the death rate in SUVs is higher than in any other 4 wheel vehicle type because of the high center of gravity leads to a lot of rollovers. Even a simple tire failure or striking a guard rail can cause these things to flip.
Then there is of course the toll on the occupants of other vehicles these things hit. Car occupants are 50% more likely to be killed in a SUV-car accident than in a car-car accident.
The problem is so bad that the decline in highway deaths in the US has hit a plateau. Death rates in SUVs is actually rising.
Analysis of the statistics gives estimates that SUVs lead to an additional 6000 deaths on US highways every year.
Doesn't Java have like 5,000 built-in classes
More like 3000. And it covers a vastly wider range of applications - 2D and 3D graphics APIs, a couple of GUI frameworks, XML binding frameworks etc. PHP sure looks both weak-assed and crufty.
PHP gets the job done for me.
I am sorry, but I have worked on PHP based ecommerce sites written by a team of programmers. I HAVE NEVER SEEN REAL WORLD PHP WEB APPS that don't suck giant donkey dicks! The only thing worse is some of those early 1995 sites written in CGI Perl.
There is No NONE NADDA culture of acceptable programming practice in the PHP space. Thank god some of our customers insisted THOUSHALTDELIVERJAVA to us. It enabled me to learn Java and land a real job that paid enough to feed my family before the PHP shop I was working for went bust.
Now maybe PHP can be used to write good code. But I consider that to be a pie in the sky theoretical possibility much like time travel, dark energy and space warps. It would be great but you won't see it in your lifetime.
And I *SURE AS SHIT* don't want to try to make a living working on code like that.
More recently I have been looking at mod_python. Now that I could see using to build lightweight web sites. Once it matures a bit.
But php? BLLEEECCHHHH. In practice its use leads to all the wrong sorts of things. Tierless designs with presentation, business logic and persistance all happening in the same goddam file. Worse than old spaghetti code you see in old BASIC programs because the cruft is multi level.
This article is a crock. PHP is great for your $10 a month hosting service domain on a shared server, but Java has been and continues to be the market leader when it comes to writing web based functionality that integrates across an entire enterprise.
Try doing this in PHP.
There is a reason that eBay handles 1 billion transactions a day on Java.
Or if you have a lisp Massa-chu-tits.
I think we should set the clocks back 1 hour every Saturady night for a longer weekend and more time to party!!!
Looks like the United Nations of Mars are finally cooperating on Homeland Security and emergency management.
Maybe we ought to see if they would be willing to participate in an exchange program.
WTF? There hace been versions of Flash for Solaris for a while now. Why not 64b Linux.
save $400 and just go for the intel
So Intel is selling a dual core Xeon for $75? That's a deal I must agree. You will have to tell me where you can buy one for that price.
Mod article as redundant.. AMD dual core technology has been kicking butt since the day it hit the market. And since you can use dual core athlon IN EXISTING 939 pin mobos you have it made in the shade. Low pawer consumption, variable clock speed, killer performance leads to the best workstations on the market.
I actually rode on the Central Rail Line in Peru which was the former highest. Now I am going to have to go to China to ride this thing.
DAMN.
I will say the Peruvian one seems still a bit more challenging - no wussy sealed cars. You get to experience altitude sickness in all its glory.
The x86 may be cheaper, but it doesn't mean that it is better.
The problem is that any advantage the Sparc architecture may have is swamped by cost. I can build a 200 CPU Athlon rack with 2 TB of RAM for the same price a single well configured V-890 (8 CPU/64 GB RAM) goes for. The Sparc may be better, but 25 times better.